Reinstall OS

[Ray]

My pc has some issue and would like to reinstall the OS. The pc does not
have any floppy and cd-rom drives. I booted up the pc using a bootable
floppy disk created in Windows XP on an external bootable floppy drive and
installed dos usb cd-ROM drive driver in order to use the external usb
cd-rom drive. Very strange once I typed setup.exe on the XP disk and come
back with "This program requires Microsoft Windows.". I did boot up the pc
on Windows ME that created in Windows XP. What is the meaning of
requirement of Microsoft Windows? Your advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ray

 

[Dave Patrick]

You need to run winnt.exe from DOS

winnt [/s:SourcePath] [/t:TempDrive] [/u:answer file][/udf:ID [,UDB_file]]
[/r:folder][/rx:folder][/e:command][/a]

Parameters
/s:SourcePath
Specifies the source location of the Windows XP files. The location must be
a full path of the form x:\[Path] or \\server\share[\Path].
/t:TempDrive
Directs Setup to place temporary files on the specified drive and to install
Windows XP on that drive. If you do not specify a location, Setup attempts
to locate a drive for you.
/u:answer file
Performs an unattended Setup using an answer file. The answer file provides
answers to some or all of the prompts that the end user normally responds to
during Setup. If you use /u, you must also use /s.
/udf:ID [,UDB_file]
Indicates an identifier (ID) that Setup uses to specify how a Uniqueness
Database (UDB) file modifies an answer file (see /u). The UDB overrides
values in the answer file, and the identifier determines which values in the
UDB file are used. If no UDB_file is specified, Setup prompts you to insert
a disk that contains the $Unique$.udb file.
/r:folder
Specifies an optional folder to be installed. The folder remains after Setup
finishes.
/rx:folder
Specifies an optional folder to be copied. The folder is deleted after Setup
finishes.
/e:command
Specifies a command to be carried out just before the final phase of Setup.
/a
Enables accessibility options.
/?
Displays help at the command prompt.

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:
| My pc has some issue and would like to reinstall the OS. The pc does not
| have any floppy and cd-rom drives. I booted up the pc using a bootable
| floppy disk created in Windows XP on an external bootable floppy drive and
| installed dos usb cd-ROM drive driver in order to use the external usb
| cd-rom drive. Very strange once I typed setup.exe on the XP disk and come
| back with "This program requires Microsoft Windows.". I did boot up the
pc
| on Windows ME that created in Windows XP. What is the meaning of
| requirement of Microsoft Windows? Your advice is greatly appreciated.
|
| Thanks,
|
| Ray
|
|

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

My pc has some issue and would like to reinstall the OS. The pc does not
have any floppy and cd-rom drives. I booted up the pc using a bootable
floppy disk created in Windows XP on an external bootable floppy drive and
installed dos usb cd-ROM drive driver in order to use the external usb
cd-rom drive. Very strange once I typed setup.exe on the XP disk and come
back with "This program requires Microsoft Windows.". I did boot up the
pc on Windows ME that created in Windows XP. What is the meaning of
requirement of Microsoft Windows? Your advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ray,

The setup.exe at the root of the CD is a Windows program. If you want to
setup Windows XP after booting to DOS then you need to run the winnt.exe
program from within the i386 folder on the CD ROM


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[Ray]

Thanks for your advice. I tried to run winnt.exe under i386 folder. The
blue screen came up and showed the following.

Windows XP Setup

An internal Setup error has occurred.
Could not find a place for a swap file.
Setup cannot continue. Press ENTER to exit.

What is meaning of this? Any suggestion to resolve it!

Thanks,

Ray

 

[Alex Nichol]

My pc has some issue and would like to reinstall the OS. The pc does not
have any floppy and cd-rom drives. I booted up the pc using a bootable
floppy disk created in Windows XP on an external bootable floppy drive and
installed dos usb cd-ROM drive driver in order to use the external usb
cd-rom drive. Very strange once I typed setup.exe on the XP disk and come
back with "This program requires Microsoft Windows.".

You do not install XP normally in that way, but by booting the CD.
Setup is for cases where you run the CD from an existing system in
order to upgrade

However you can go to the CD and do a
CD \i386
Winnt
which should load the normal XP install

 

[Dave Patrick]

Does a formatted primary active partition exist?

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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:
| Thanks for your advice. I tried to run winnt.exe under i386 folder. The
| blue screen came up and showed the following.
|
| Windows XP Setup
|
| An internal Setup error has occurred.
| Could not find a place for a swap file.
| Setup cannot continue. Press ENTER to exit.
|
| What is meaning of this? Any suggestion to resolve it!
|
| Thanks,
|
| Ray
|
| | > My pc has some issue and would like to reinstall the OS. The pc does
not
| > have any floppy and cd-rom drives. I booted up the pc using a bootable
| > floppy disk created in Windows XP on an external bootable floppy drive
and
| > installed dos usb cd-ROM drive driver in order to use the external usb
| > cd-rom drive. Very strange once I typed setup.exe on the XP disk and
come
| > back with "This program requires Microsoft Windows.". I did boot up the
| > pc on Windows ME that created in Windows XP. What is the meaning of
| > requirement of Microsoft Windows? Your advice is greatly appreciated.
| >
| > Thanks,
| >
| > Ray
| >
|
|

 

[Ray]

Alex,

Unfortunately, it failed to install it normally as per my earlier message.

Ray

 

[Ray]

Dave,

Yes, of course, I have a good workable hard disk. Is the DOS looking for a
hard disk to place a swap file? If so, I do not know how it can find
because the DOS cannot read the file system NTFS of the hard disk. I tried
to browse the hard disk C and D but could not see them.

Ray

 

[Dave Patrick]

To install in this arrangement the partition will probably need to be fat32
< 32 gB in size.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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:
| Dave,
|
| Yes, of course, I have a good workable hard disk. Is the DOS looking for
a
| hard disk to place a swap file? If so, I do not know how it can find
| because the DOS cannot read the file system NTFS of the hard disk. I
tried
| to browse the hard disk C and D but could not see them.
|
| Ray

 

[Greg R]

You need to get a cd drive.

Don't choose copy files to computer from cd if making a ntfs
partition.

If fat32 choose copy files from cd to computer.

Greg R